[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bake/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) / bake # bake verb (bake, bakes, baked, baking); noun (a bake) «bake» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To bake is to cook food in an oven with dry heat, like bread, cakes or cookies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#m1) 2. To bake is to make something hard by heat, like clay or bricks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#m2) 3. To bake can mean to be very hot: «We're baking in the sun». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#m3) ### In the lessons making things that are counted, often in batches or trays; times in minutes; in cooking class, following a recipe; phrases «bake sale», «bake off», «bake at 180 degrees» ### Examples - Mom bakes 24 cookies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x1) - She bakes 3 trays with 12 muffins each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x2) - It takes 20 minutes to bake a cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x3) - How many pies can he bake with 9 apples? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x4) - Let's bake bread this weekend. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x5) - Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x6) - Our class had a bake sale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x7) - The bricks are baked in a kiln. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x8) - We were baking on the hot beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x9) - Ask an adult before you use the oven to bake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x10) ### Note Baking makes more things: add or multiply by batches. Trap: baking time per tray stays the same, and trays baked at the same time do not add time. Safety: use oven gloves; hot trays burn. ## In Jewish tradition Interpretation: The twelve cakes are the showbread (lechem hapanim), set out in the Tabernacle each Shabbat. The manna was baked on the sixth day to prepare for Shabbat. Lot baked unleavened bread for his guests, which the tradition links to Passover. In the primary lessons: making things that are counted, often in batches or trays; times in minutes; in cooking class, following a recipe; phrases «bake sale», «bake off», «bake at 180 degrees» ### Examples - And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. (Torah LEV.24.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/#x1) - Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.' (Torah EXO.16.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/#x2) - And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. (Torah GEN.19.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/#x3) - And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/#x4) - And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.' (Prophets EZK.4.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/#x5) - And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; (Prophets 1SA.28.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/#x6) ### Note Baking makes more things: add or multiply by batches. Trap: baking time per tray stays the same, and trays baked at the same time do not add time. Safety: use oven gloves; hot trays burn. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «bake» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«bake» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bake.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «bake» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bake/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«bake» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/bake.html) on Mova free.